How Chowstik collects, uses and protects your information.

Chowstik ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed by Chowstik.

This Privacy Policy applies to our website/app, its associated subdomains (collectively, our "Service"), and our application, Chowstik. By accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.

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Cookie means a small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser. It is used to identify your browser, provide analytics, and remember information about you such as language preference or login information.

Company means Chowstik Culinary Ventures Limited, located at 4 akanbi ogundare, iyana school, iba, ojo. When this policy mentions "Company," "we," "us," or "our," it refers to Chowstik Culinary Ventures Limited, which is responsible for your information under this Privacy Policy.

Country means where Chowstik or the owners/founders of Chowstik are based, in this case Nigeria. Customer refers to the company, organization or person that signs up to use the Chowstik Service.

Device means any internet connected phone, tablet, computer or other device used to visit Chowstik and use the services. IP address means the Internet Protocol address assigned to a device connected to the Internet.

Personnel refers to individuals employed by Chowstik or under contract to perform a service on behalf of one of the parties. Personal Data means information that directly or indirectly allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Service refers to the service provided by Chowstik as described in the relative terms, if available, and on this platform. Third-party service refers to advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or services we think may interest you. You means a person or entity registered with Chowstik to use the Services.

We collect information from you when you visit our website/app, register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form.

The information we collect may include your name or username, phone numbers, email addresses, billing addresses, and password.

We also collect information from mobile devices for a better user experience, although these features are completely optional. Location (GPS) data helps create an accurate representation of your interests and may be used to bring more targeted and relevant ads to potential customers.

Photo Gallery access allows you to upload pictures from your photo gallery. You can safely deny photo gallery access for this platform.

Chowstik will collect End User Data necessary to provide Chowstik services to our customers. End users may voluntarily provide us with information they have made available on social media websites.

If you provide us with such information, we may collect publicly available information from the social media websites you indicate. You can control how much information social media websites make public by visiting those websites and changing your privacy settings.

We receive some information from third parties when you contact us. For example, when you submit your email address to show interest in becoming a Chowstik customer, we may receive information from a third party that provides automated fraud detection services to Chowstik.

We may share personal and non-personal information with third parties such as advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you.

We may share information with current and future affiliated companies and business partners. If we are involved in a merger, asset sale or other business reorganization, we may share or transfer your personal and non-personal information to our successors-in-interest.

We may engage trusted third party service providers to perform functions and services such as hosting and maintaining our servers and website/app, database storage and management, email management, storage marketing, credit card processing, customer service, and fulfilling orders for products and services you purchase through the website/app.

We may share portions of our log file data, including IP addresses, for analytics purposes with third parties such as web analytics partners, application developers and ad networks. IP addresses may be used to estimate general location and other technographics.

We may disclose personal and non-personal information to government or law enforcement officials or private parties where we believe it is necessary or appropriate to respond to claims, legal process, protect rights and interests, protect public safety, prevent illegal or unethical activity, or comply with court orders, laws, rules and regulations.

We may use information to personalize your experience, improve our website/app, improve customer service, process transactions, administer contests, promotions, surveys or other site features, and send periodic emails.

Your information helps us better respond to your individual needs and more effectively respond to customer service requests and support needs.

Chowstik collects personal information you submit to us. We may also receive personal information about you from third parties as described in this Privacy Policy.

By submitting your email address on this website/app, you agree to receive emails from us. You can cancel participation in any email list at any time by clicking the opt-out link or unsubscribe option included in the respective email.

We only send emails to people who have authorized us to contact them, either directly or through a third party. We do not send unsolicited commercial emails.

By submitting your email address, you also agree to allow us to use your email address for customer audience targeting on sites like Facebook, where we display custom advertising to people who have opted in to receive communications from us.

Email addresses submitted only through the order processing page will be used solely to send information and updates pertaining to your order, unless you have provided the same email to us through another method.

We keep your information only as long as we need it to provide Chowstik to you and fulfil the purposes described in this policy. When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need to keep it for legal or regulatory obligations, we will remove it from our systems or depersonalize it so we cannot identify you.

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit or access your personal information.

All supplied sensitive or credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and encrypted into our payment gateway providers' database, accessible only by those authorized with special access rights and required to keep the information confidential.

After a transaction, private information such as credit cards, social security numbers, financials and similar details is never kept on file. However, we cannot ensure or warrant the absolute security of information transmitted to Chowstik.

Chowstik is incorporated in Nigeria. Information collected via our website/app, direct interactions with you, or use of our help services may be transferred from time to time to our offices, personnel or third parties located throughout the world.

Information may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including countries that may not have general laws regulating the use and transfer of such data. To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, by using the Service, you consent to the trans-border transfer and hosting of such information.

We take precautions to protect your information through physical, electronic and managerial procedures. However, neither people nor security systems are foolproof, including encryption systems. While we use reasonable efforts to protect personal information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

The rights you have to request updates or corrections to information Chowstik collects depend on your relationship with Chowstik. Personnel may update or correct their information as detailed in internal company employment policies.

Customers may contact us to update or correct personally identifiable information, change communication preferences, or delete personally identifiable information maintained about them on our systems by cancelling their account.

Such updates, corrections, changes and deletions will have no effect on other information we maintain, or information we provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy before the update, correction, change or deletion.

To protect privacy and security, we may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password and account information.

It may not be technologically possible to remove every record of information from our systems because backup copies may exist in a non-erasable form. Information in actively used databases and readily searchable media will be updated, corrected, changed or deleted as soon as reasonably and technically practicable.

If you are a Chowstik worker or applicant, we collect information you voluntarily provide to us and use it for Human Resources purposes, including administering benefits and screening applicants.

We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger or other transfer of all or substantially all assets of Chowstik or its Corporate Affiliates, or if we discontinue our business or enter bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceedings, provided the third party agrees to adhere to this Privacy Policy.

We may disclose information, including personal information, about you to our Corporate Affiliates. Corporate Affiliate means any person or entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with Chowstik.

This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of Nigeria without regard to conflict of laws provisions. By using Chowstik or contacting us directly, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you should not engage with our website/app or use our services. Continued use after changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept those changes.

This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services. The Services may contain links to websites not operated or controlled by Chowstik, and those websites are subject to their own rules and policies.

Chowstik uses Cookies to identify areas of our website/app you have visited. Cookies enhance performance and functionality, but are non-essential. If you disable Cookies, some functionality may become unavailable or not work correctly. We never place Personally Identifiable Information in Cookies.

You may set your browser to block cookies and similar technologies, but this may block essential cookies and prevent our website/app from functioning properly. Disabling a cookie does not delete it from your browser; you must do this yourself from within your browser.

In respect to any credit card or other payment processing details you provide, we commit that this confidential information will be stored in the most secure manner possible.

We collect information from kids under the age of 13 just to better our services. If you are a parent or guardian and know your child has provided Personal Data without permission, please contact us. If we learn we collected Personal Data from anyone under 13 without parental consent, we take steps to remove it from our servers.

We may change our Service and policies and may need to update this Privacy Policy so it accurately reflects them. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you before changes go into effect and give you an opportunity to review them.

We may display, include or make available third-party content or provide links to third-party websites or services. Chowstik is not responsible for Third-Party Services, including their accuracy, completeness, legality, quality or any other aspect. You access and use them at your own risk and subject to third-party terms.

Google Maps API may collect information from you and your Device for security purposes and holds information in accordance with its Privacy Policy. Local Storage provides web apps with methods for storing client-side data. Sessions identify areas of our platform you have visited.

If you are from the European Economic Area, GDPR may apply. GDPR is an EU-wide privacy and data protection law that regulates how EU residents' data is protected and enhances control over personal data.

Personal data includes any data relating to an identifiable or identified individual, including financial information, political opinions, genetic data, biometric data, IP addresses, physical address, sexual orientation, ethnicity, names and email addresses.

Data Protection Principles require personal data to be processed fairly, legally and transparently, collected for a specific purpose, held no longer than necessary, and made accessible, updatable, deletable, restrictable or portable where applicable.

Chowstik processes or stores personal data in vetted, DPA-compliant vendors. We store conversation and personal data for up to 6 years unless your account is deleted; in that case we dispose of data in accordance with our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and will not hold it longer than 60 days.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires us to disclose categories of Personal Information we collect and how we use it, the categories of sources from whom we collect Personal Information, and the third parties with whom we share it, which we have explained above.

California residents may exercise the Right to Know and Access, Right to Equal Service, Right to Delete, and the right to request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data not sell that data. We do not sell the Personal Information of our users.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions: Via Email: info@chowstik.com. Via Phone number: 09118051202. Via this Link: www.chowstik.com/contact-us.